Arsenal beat Manchester United to open up English title race
Aaron Ramsey scored the only goal of the match in the second half as Arsenal beat leaders Manchester United at the Emirates Sunday to blow the English title race wide open. A win for United would have all but sealed a record 19th championship, but they now lead Chelsea by…
Osama bin Laden, the face of terror, killed in Pakistan
The most prominent face of terror in America and beyond, Osama bin Laden, has been killed in Pakistan, U.S. officials said Sunday night. Bin Laden was the leader of al Qaeda, the terrorist network behind the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. U.S. officials said that their forces…
At 80, the Empire State Building strikes back
It is so obvious, so cliché and so visible that visiting the Empire State Building gets, ironically, overlooked. Like the single slice meal, blue Yankee cap and yellow cab, the skyscraper is in the city’s DNA, so familiar you feel as if you have been there even if you have…
NATO strike misses Gadhafi but kills a son
One of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi’s sons — Saif al-Arab Gadhafi — was killed after a NATO airstrike, a spokesman for Libya’s government said Sunday at a press conference. Moammar Gadhafi and his wife were in their son’s house when it was targeted, spokesman Musa Ibrahim said. Both of them…
Syrian army attacks mosque, killing 4
Syrian army troops backed by tanks and three helicopters on Saturday took a prominent mosque that had been controlled by residents in a besieged southern city killing four people, a witness said. The operation in the town of Daraa came a day after President Bashar Assad unleashed deadly force to…
Leinster 32-23 Toulouse
Leinster (16) 32Tries: Heaslip, O’DriscollCons: Sexton 2Pens: Sexton 6 Toulouse (13) 23Tries: Fritz, PicamolesCons: Skrela 2Pens: Skrela, BezyDrop goal: Skrela Leinster clinched their place in the Heineken Cup final with a hard-fought win over Toulouse at the Aviva Stadium. The Irish province led 16-13 at half-time thanks to a…
